(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Choice of Medical Practitioner) Amendment (Wales) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st July 2000.
(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” (“y prif Reoliadau”) means the National Health Service (Choice of Medical Practitioner) Regulations 1998.
(3) These Regulations shall apply to Wales only.
Specified date: 1 July 2000: see para (1) above.
At the end of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(3) In respect of regulations 4 and 5 the amendments made by the National Health Service (Choice of Medical Practitioner) Amendment Regulations 1999 shall also have effect in Wales.”
Specified date: 1 July 2000: see reg 1(1).
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998
D Elis Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
21 June 2000
These Regulations have effect to amend the National Health Service (Choice of Medical Practitioner) Regulations 1998 (“the principal Regulations”) which relate to the right of persons to choose the doctor from whom they wish to receive primary medical services.
The textual amendments of the principal Regulations which are made by the National Health Service (Choice of Medical Practitioner) Amendment Regulations 1999 (“the 1999 Regulations”) and which extend to England are made to have effect in Wales.
The 1999 Regulations amend regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (assignment of persons to doctors) by amending the provisions for a Health Authority assigning a patient to a doctor so that account may be taken by a Health Authority of patients who have acted violently to their doctor in the past, so that a doctor with the most appropriate facilities may be chosen.
The 1999 Regulations also make similar amendments to Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations, which deal with the assignment of a patient to a doctor by a “pilot scheme provider”.
